Obama should declare victory in Iraq

Tens of thousands of brave Iraqis have bled and died fighting alongside U.S. troops against Islamic terrorists. As we withdraw from Iraq, President Obama should make it known to the region that we will remain committed to our friends. We are in deep need of a show of strength. Wouldn’t it be nice to see Obama go to Baghdad, stand with Iraq’s motley crew of political leaders (Allawi, Maliki, etc.), along with Secretary Clinton and Generals Odierno and Mattis, and state in front of an audience of rowdy U.S. and Iraqi soldiers the triumph over Saddamist cultism, dictatorship, insurgency, and jihadist terrorism?

This is important for history. Wars don’t just “end.” They are won or lost. And history, as they say, is written by the winners.